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What type of rock is made up of ancient coral?
limestone rock
a. The ancient corals, which are from more than 400 million years, formed the limestone rock in the ocean.
Is a diamond a type of rock?
Background. The diamond is the hardest natural substance known. It is found in a type of igneous rock known as kimberlite. The diamond itself is essentially a chain of carbon atoms that have crystallized.
What type of rock is Stapafell?
About Stapafell Mt Stapafell is a hyaloclastite mountain on the Reykjanes Peninsula to the southeast of the village Hafnir. It is mostly made of pillow lava. Olivine, one of the primary structures of the basaltic rock, dominates the lower part of the pillows.
Is chalk soft or hard rock?
Chalk, soft, fine-grained, easily pulverized, white-to-grayish variety of limestone. Chalk is composed of the shells of such minute marine organisms as foraminifera, coccoliths, and rhabdoliths. The purest varieties contain up to 99 percent calcium carbonate in the form of the mineral calcite.
Which is the most common type of rock on Earth?
Sedimentary rocks are rocks that are made from pieces of other rocks. They are the most common type of rock that covers the Earth’s surface, with approximately 75% of the rocks at the Earth’s surface being sedimentary.
What kind of rock has large mineral grains?
Granite from Estonia. This granite has very large mineral grains, indicating the rock cooled very slowly within the Earth. Scale bar is 5 cm. Igneous rocks are rocks that are formed either inside of the Earth’s crust ( intrusive ), or on the outside of the Earth by volcanic processes ( extrusive ).
What are the three main classes of rocks?
As you probably learned in middle or high school, there are three main classes of rocks: Igneous, Metamorphic, and Sedimentary. We will go through some basic information on each below:
What kind of rocks are igneous and metamorphic?
1 Igneous Rocks 2 Sedimentary Rocks 3 Metamorphic Rocks